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Today, the European Union and Armenia signed an agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation. A visa facilitation agreement (...)

On April 17 and 18, 2013, the EU Member States anti-terrorist police forces are uniting as part of the European sponsored ATLAS Network, which (...)

The number of people being trafficked to and from the EU is rising, but less traffickers end up behind bars. With the entry into force of the EU (...)

The 'EU Internal Security Strategy in Action' comprises 41 actions targeting the most urgent security threats facing Europe (IP/10/1535 and MEMO (...)

Today, the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) enters into operation.

The activities of organised crime networks are more complex, diverse and international in scope than ever before. Smooth cross-border cooperation, (...)

The European Commission adopted a decision to further harmonize issuing of short stay visas. From now on visa applicants residing in Jordan, Kosovo (...)

Moving to Europe temporarily is an opportunity embraced by a wide number of non-EU national students and researchers every year. Too many of them (...)

Having adopted strong rules on transfers of firearms both within and outside the Union, the EU is now in a position to ratify the UN firearms (...)

Civil society organisations from EU Member States working on trafficking in human beings are invited to express an interest to participate in the (...)

The Russian Federation and the European Union publish the Common steps towards visa free short-term travel of Russian and EU citizens.

Statement by Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on the occasion of the EU day for the Remembrance of victims of terrorism.

The EU is moving towards more modern and efficient border management by using state-of-the-art technology. Today, the Commission proposed a 'smart (...)

On Thursday 21/2, a group of citizens will debate with European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, in charge of home affairs, and the Mayor of Turin, (...)

On Wednesday March 6 from 11:30-12:45 AM, the EU is organising a side event to the 57th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. It will (...)

Today, the Home Affairs Commissioner together with MEP Olle Ludvigsson (S, S&D) has discussed with more than 300 young citizens from the Gothenburg (...)

The Commission presented today the first report on the progress achieved by Kosovo in fulfilling the requirements of the visa liberalisation roadmap. (...)

How to prevent and respond to cyber-disruptions and attacks? Today's Cyber Security Strategy outlines the EU's vision on how to enhance security in (...)

A major investigation involving Europol and police teams from 13 European countries has uncovered an extensive criminal network involved in (...)

Safer Internet Day is organised in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially (...)

Drug trafficking is a highly profitable commercial activity and a core business for organised crime groups across Europe today. Understanding the (...)

Where do you apply for a German work permit? Does a Chilean citizen need a residence permit to study in Italy? And if you have been exploited for (...)

On January 29, the Commission will host a High-level Conference to bolster the efforts of the EU and the EU countries to broaden engagement in (...)

As from 11 January the new European Cybercrime Centre will be up and running to help protect European citizens and businesses against cyber-criminal (...)

Migration is a part of our past, present and future. It is a defining component of the societies in which we already live and can help us grow (...)

The Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems is launching a call for tender for a framework contract for the maintenance in (...)

More than two years after its entry into force, the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) and its safeguards have reached a very satisfactory (...)

The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 2012, in recognition of six decades of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

Overall results in tackling corruption across the European Union remain insufficient. Anti-corruption efforts need to shift up a gear.

The Commission sets out recommendations to EU states for how to improve the implementation of the existing information exchange instruments. It (...)

The Global Alliance aims to unite efforts around the world to more effectively combat online sexual crimes against children. A one day launching (...)

The EUCPN is an EU-wide platform for exchanging best practices, research and information on how to prevent crime paying particular attention to (...)

On 1 December 2012, the new European Agency tasked with the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the home affairs area will start its (...)

The European Commission has adopted the proposals for signature and closure of the visa facilitation and readmission agreements with Armenia today.

The seventh report about breaches of the principle of visa reciprocity adopted today by the European Commission shows that there are still two (...)

The second biannual overview on the functioning of the Schengen area was published today. Covering the period 1 May 2012 – 31 October 2012, it (...)

Facilitating the travel of non-EU nationals to the EU has a considerable impact on the economy as a whole. With 18.8 million jobs in 2011, tourism (...)

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ms Cecilia Malmström will participate in the EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum in Tirana on 5-6 November 2012. The (...)

Trafficking in human beings remains a serious issue in the European Union, with an estimated 880,000 victims of forced labour, including forced (...)

The EU and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in (...)

The European Asylum Support Office has launched its new website at www.easo.europa.eu. It contains information on the agency’s mission and objectives (...)

Every year thousands of unaccompanied minors from non-EU countries travel to Europe. Some have fled from wars, conflicts or other difficult and (...)

To mark the 6th EU Anti-Trafficking Day, the Cyprus EU Presidency and the European Commission are organising a high level conference in Brussels on 18 October 2012.

Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs, is getting a newly designed website this week. Her site, ec.europa.eu/malmstrom, has easier-to-find (...)

Today, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has moved into its new premises located in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Malta.

The European Commission adopted a decision to further harmonize issuing of short stay visas. From now on visa applicants in Chile, Kazakhstan (Almaty (...)

The European Migration Network (EMN) is now firmly established in the landscape of asylum and migration. Four years after its formal creation, the (...)

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published its first 'Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union and on the Activities (...)

Today the Commission adopted a decision to further harmonize certain aspects of the procedures of issuing short stay visas. From now on visa (...)

Today, the European Asylum Support Office has published its first country of origin information report. The report focuses on Taliban recruitment (...)

Internet users are very concerned about cyber security: a new Eurobarometer survey shows that 89% of internet users avoid disclosing (...)

Today the management board of the new EU Agency for large-scale information systems in the Home Affairs area held its second meeting in Tallinn and (...)

The Commission considers that the Republic of Moldova has eventually met all benchmarks of the first phase of the Action Plan on Visa Liberalisation (...)

Today, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, is in Florence to attend the official opening of the Migration Policy Centre. (...)

The EU - US Justice and Home Affairs ministerial meeting held in Copenhagen today called upon governments around the world to participate in building (...)

Today, in Brussels, the negotiators of the Commission, Director General Manservisi, and of Turkey, Ambassador Yenel, have initialled a Readmission (...)

Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into the EU or within the EU every year. Women and men, boys and girls in vulnerable positions are (...)

Today, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström handed over to the Kosovo government the roadmap to visa liberalisation. The pace (...)

During Eurocup 2012 Frontex coordinates a joint operation in support of Polish and Ukrainian border guards. From the beginning of June over 100 (...)

An international organised crime group, responsible for payment card fraud and illegal online purchases, has been successfully disrupted during a (...)

Over the last few months the Commission has been providing technical support and guidance to the Polish Police and Border Guards in training and (...)

The European Commission today started a dialogue on visa liberalisation with Georgia. The aim is to examine all the relevant conditions for visa-free (...)

The Commission published today its report on last year's developments in the area of immigration and asylum. Several important events and policy (...)

Today the Commission proposed to improve the overall efficiency of EURODAC, the system collecting fingerprints of asylum seekers which is an (...)

Today the Commission adopted its first Schengen 'health check', a biannual overview on the functioning of the area. The report covers the period from (...)

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered two significant judgments concerning non-EU nationals who are long term residents in the EU.

The European Parliament adopted today the 'Joint EU Resettlement Programme' presented by the Commission in 2009.

The Commission proposed today to establish a European Cybercrime Centre within Europol to become the Union's focal point in the fight against (...)

The first meeting of the Management Board of the new EU Agency responsible for information systems in the Home Affairs area will take place on tomorrow in Tallinn.

Today the Commission proposed new rules for a more effective and widespread confiscation of funds and other property acquired through crime. The (...)

The 5th Integrating Cities Conference took place in Amsterdam in March 2012. Cities and the European Commission considered a development of a (...)

The new EU legislation on control of export, import and transit of firearms has been adopted today. The legislation makes it harder for arms (...)

Despite having been warned in July 2011, Austria, Cyprus and Greece have not complied yet with EU rules on work permits for highly qualified (...)

Today the European Commission has adopted a decision to further harmonize issuing of short stay visas. From now on visa applicants in Egypt should (...)

In today's Grand Chamber judgment, the European Court of Human rights gave its verdict in a case concerning Somalian and Eritrean migrants who had (...)

According to the Eurobarometer survey published by the Commission today almost three quarters of Europeans continue to see corruption as a major (...)

The Second Progress Reports on the implementation by the Republic of Moldova and by Ukraine of their respective Action Plans on Visa Liberalisation were published today.

As part of its reform of the EU data protection legislation, the Commission adopted a specific proposal aiming to regulate the collection and use of (...)

Cecilia Malmström is in Pristina today to launch a visa liberalisation dialogue. The aim of the process is to eventually lift the visa obligation for (...)

Commission puts forward an action plan on collection of statistics in different crime areas.

An international organised crime network, responsible for a large-scale production and trafficking of synthetic drugs, has been broken up following (...)

This year, the various activities in countries on all continents focus on the topic "Connecting generations and educating each other". Young and old (...)

As of today, Liechtenstein has become the latest country taking part in the area without checks at internal borders.

Law enforcement agencies from 26 European countries, supported and coordinated by Europol, have carried out a major operation against online child (...)

The United Nations' International Migrants Day is annually held on December 18 to recognize the efforts, contributions and rights of about 200 (...)

Today the European Parliament adopted the so called Single Permit Directive. It will ensure that non-EU workers legally residing in an EU country (...)

The European Commission proposed today to establish a European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR) with the aim of increasing coordination within (...)

"In an ideal world, there would not be any conflicts or wars and there would be no reason for people to leave their homes and countries to seek (...)

In its Communication on "Enhanced intra-EU solidarity in the field of asylum", adopted today, the European Commission proposes reinforcing practical, (...)

The European Parliament voted today to enable easier border crossing for people in the Kaliningrad area. The new EU rules on local border traffic (...)

Four out of ten citizens think that the EU needs better tools to fight organised crime, terrorism and extremism, according to a Eurobarometer poll (...)

Today, EU and African Ministers have met in Dakar to decide on the future orientations for developing the cooperation process on migration and (...)

Cecilia Malmström, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs launched today the 'EU Immigration Portal', a website with hands-on information for (...)

The Global Approach is to be regarded as the overarching framework for the EU external migration policy, complementary to the EU foreign policy and (...)

Today, the European Union and the United States have initialled a new agreement on the transfer of passengers' data by air carriers operating flights (...)

The 2011 Annual report released today by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) shows emergence of new threats, (...)

Today, the Commission launched a public debate on the right to family reunification of non-EU nationals living in the EU. The debate should tackle (...)

Today, the European Commission proposed increasing funding for Home Affairs while improving and simplifying the way EU financing is delivered. For (...)

Today, Commissioners Cecilia Malmström and Andris Piebalgs signed a Framework Agreement with IOM Director-General William L. Swing. The EU and IOM (...)

The European Parliament has voted today on the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on combating sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of (...)

Today's signature of the Mobility Partnership between Armenia and the EU is a concrete manifestation of a will to bring Armenian and European (...)

Today, the European Parliament has provided its consent with the PNR agreements between the EU and Australia and the Council can proceed with the (...)

The European Parliament adopted today its position on the amendment of the Qualification Directive. The role of the directive is to help reduce (...)

Every year more than 700 million EU citizens and non-EU nationals are crossing the EU's external borders. Enabling smooth and fast border crossing (...)

At the occasion of the 5th EU Day against human trafficking, the heads of CEPOL, the European Asylum Support Office, the European Institute for (...)

Today the European Commission adopted a decision to further harmonize issuing of short stay visas. From now on visa applicants in Bosnia-Herzegovina, (...)

With a view to being progressively rolled out in the different regions of the world, the Visa Information System (VIS) started operating in North (...)

The European Commission today has issued two reports today, on how EU States have implemented EU rules on the entry and residence of students, (...)

Today, the European Commission has put forward several proposals to consolidate and further strengthen the existing framework for dialogue and (...)

Today, the Commission has recommended that the Council opens negotiations with Armenia and Azerbaijan on agreements to facilitate the procedures for (...)

The European Commission proposed today to strengthen the EU's area without internal borders by enhancing the evaluation and monitoring of the (...)

The European Parliament today adopted the European Commission's proposal to strengthen the European Union's border management agency, Frontex. (...)

Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs, has inaugurated today in Brussels the Radicalisation Awareness Network connecting key groups of (...)

The Commission proposed to allocate €370.1 million to Member States for actions in the field of border management and visa policy in 2012.This (...)

The Commission proposed to facilitate border crossing for people in the Kaliningrad area. The proposal to amend EU rules on local border traffic (...)

The Commission adopted a 'European Agenda for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals' to enhance the economic, social and cultural benefits of (...)

Following the visit of European Commission experts to Denmark on 14 July, Commissioner Cecilia Malmström underlined persistent concerns about the (...)

The Commission adopted a Communication outlining the main options for establishing a European Terrorist Finance Tracking System (TFTS). A European (...)

European Commission experts will visit Denmark on 14 July. This assessment mission is part of the Commission's dialogue with the Danish authorities (...)

Commissioner Malmström welcomes the vote by the European Parliament committee (LIBE) on the Commission's proposal to amend the Qualification Directive.

Commissioner Malmström welcomes the political consensus reached by the negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the (...)

Commissioner Malmström welcomes the political agreement reached on stricter rules to combat illicit trafficking of civilian firearms. In May 2010 the (...)

The European Commission welcomes the conclusions adopted today by the European Council on asylum and migration issues. Recent initiatives from the (...)

Ahead of the European Council which will discuss migration and asylum issues, Commissioner Malmström urges European political leaders to show that (...)

Commissioner Cecilia Malmström welcomes the political agreement reached between the negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the (...)

The United Nations' (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year, since 2001. This year's World Refugee Day comes as we celebrate the 60th (...)

On 19 June, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, will participate in the inaugural ceremony of the European Asylum Support (...)

Today marks the 26th anniversary of the Schengen acquis, an agreement, first signed on 14 June 1985 by 5 EU Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, (...)

The European Commission adopted a set of measures to address more vigorously the serious harms generated by corruption at economic, social and (...)

The Commission presented revised proposals amending the Directives on Asylum Procedures and on Reception Conditions. Today's modifications are aiming (...)

The Commission is proposing a package of measures aimed at a better management of migration flows from the Southern Mediterranean region, as well as (...)

"I call on the Danish government to refrain from taking unilateral steps and to make sure that any measures taken are in line with the (...)

Today, the Commission took the initiative to gather the Member States Home Affairs Ministers, in a pledging conference on relocation and (...)

At the G8 ministerial meeting in Paris today, the Commission called for strengthened cooperation in the fight against drugs and presented new (...)

Today, the Commission presented its initiatives for a more structured, comprehensive, rapid-response approach from the EU to the migration challenges (...)

Today the European Commission adopted an evaluation report of the Data Retention Directive outlining the lessons learned since its adoption in 2006. (...)

The Commission adopted today a report on the functioning of 'Asset Recovery Offices' set up by Member States to fight organised crime. By identifying (...)

The Commission is meeting with stakeholders at all levels of society (Member States, international organisations, non-profit organisations, etc.) to (...)

The European Union has responded in a rapid and effective manner to the crisis developing in the Southern Mediterranean region. The Commission has (...)

The Operating Plan for the deployment of EU Asylum Support Teams in Greece has been adopted on 1 April 2011. For the first time, Asylum Support Teams (...)

The European Commission welcomes the adoption on 21 March 2011 by the Council of a new Directive on trafficking in Human beings. The adoption follows (...)

Commissioner Cecilia Malmström presents today the outcome of the first EU-US review of the implementation of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (...)

On 10 March 2011, the Commission proposed to further improve EU rules governing the control of borders. Amending the Schengen Borders Code will (...)

On 2 March 2011, the operation of the Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) deployed at the Greek-Turkish border is coming to an end. The EU will (...)

The European Commission adopted on 23 February a Communication evaluating the implementation of the EU Readmission Agreements already in force and (...)

Following a request from Italian government, the Frontex mission "Hermes" has officially been deployed on 20 February 2011. The Joint Operation (...)

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On 9 February, the European Commission adopted a second report assessing the application of rules on local border traffic at the external land (...)

On 2 February, the European Commission adopted its proposal for a Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record data in the EU (EU PNR). PNR are (...)

Following the meeting between the chief negotiators of the European Commission and Turkey, held on 14 January 2011 in Ankara, the final adjustments (...)

On 24 January, Commissioner Cecilia Malmström presented the Action Plan on visa liberalisation to the Prime Minister of the Moldovan Republic, Vlad (...)

The European Court of Human Right (ECHR) delivered its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece on Friday 21 January 2011. (...)

The Commission is carrying out its review of the EU Budget, in preparation for the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework, which will cover funding in (...)

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström launched today a new website dedicated to the fight against trafficking in human beings. (...)

The European Parliament voted this afternoon in favour of the proposal for a Directive on trafficking in human beings, which the Commission put (...)

During her visit to Washingon 8-9 December, Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström discussed issues of common interest with Secretary of (...)

"Transparency is corruption's worst enemy. International research has shown a crystal clear relationship between a high level of transparency and low (...)

Today and tomorrow, 8-9 December, EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström is in Washington to discuss issues such as cyber crime and cyber security, (...)

A conference about the Data Retention Directive today was the last step before the Commission publishes its evaluation of the directive. In her (...)

At the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council today, the EU Justice Ministers agreed on a Directive on trafficking in human beings, (...)

At the occasion of the 99:th International Organization for Migration Council Session in Geneva, Switzerland, EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (...)

Negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed on the way forward in the EU's fight against trafficking in (...)

The Commission adopted today the EU Internal Security Strategy in Action, with 41 concrete actions to be carried out in the coming four years. "EU (...)

Last week, after the decision of Member States to introduce a visa-free regime for Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (...)

At their meeting in Brussels today, EU interior ministers unanimously supported the Commission's proposal on a visa free regime for citizens from (...)

On Friday 5th of November EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström visited Orestiada in Greece, following the deployment of the EU Rapid (...)

On Friday the 5th of November EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström visits Greece. Following the deployment of EU border control specialists, Cecilia (...)

EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström was in Stockholm today to meet with representatives of the new Swedish government. The ongoing (...)

Greece has been having difficulties for a long time in dealing with the large number of people who comes there from countries outside of Europe. Many (...)

In a majority of EU Member States, only a small number of residence permits are issued to victims of trafficking in human beings. This is shown in a (...)

EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström is back in Brussels after meetings in Vienna and Bratislava, where she met with Austria's and (...)

In Luxembourg today, European ministers of immigration and the interior met for the first day of the Council on Justice and Home Affairs. The state (...)

Two days meetings in Libya between EU Commissioners Cecilia Malmström and Stefan Füle on the one part and representatives from the Libyan authorities (...)

EU Commissioners Cecilia Malmström and Neelie Kroes today presented two new proposals for Directives aiming to strengthen the EU's defences against (...)

EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström has spent two days in Athens to discuss the Greek asylum system. This is how she sums up the situation: "I am (...)

The annual European Security Research conference is taking place this week in Oostende, on the Belgian coast. Stakeholders in the area of security (...)

An increasing number of countries use Passenger Name Record data in the fight against serious transnational crime and terrorism. Today, the European (...)

The bomb attacks in the London public transport in July 2005 were carried out using homemade explosives based on hydrogen-peroxide. In recent years, (...)

Asylum, security, and the EU's work against organised crime and terrorism was on the agenda when EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström today and (...)

"There is solid evidence that effective action at EU level is needed", said EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström in the European (...)

Ministers and stakeholders from all over Europe are gathered in Brussels today to discuss the future for EU cooperation in the area of asylum. (...)

The European Commission report on the application of the Directive on minimum standards on procedures for granting and withdrawing refugee status (...)

The EU-Brazil visa waiver agreements will give reciprocal access to visa-free travel for all Brazilian and EU citizens, including the nationals of (...)

Today the U.S. Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection announced the publication of the interim rule on a Travel Promotion Fee and a Fee for (...)

The 2009 annual report on the activities of EURODAC (the EU wide biometric tool which helps determine which Member State is responsible for examining (...)

The temporary staff (AD8) will act as an independent overseer, appointed by the European Commission, and will be responsible for the oversight and (...)

The European Commission presented today – for the first time – an overview of existing EU instruments regulating the collection, storage or exchange (...)

The European Commission adopted today a communication taking stock of the main tools in place under the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The (...)

The European Commission proposes a new directive with the aim of facilitating for multinational companies to temporarily transfer third-country (...)

The European Commission has today presented a proposal for a directive on seasonal employment. The proposal aims at establishing a common procedure (...)

From July 1, 2010, Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security has become two directorates – Directorate-General for Justice and (...)